Berlin Wall's Fall (1989)

Nicholas Burns, who specialized in German affairs while serving in the U.S. State Department during the fall of the Berlin Wall, will be the keynote speaker at a Nov. 10 forum at Southern Connecticut State University to commemorate the 25th anniversary of that historic milestone. The program, "Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall: 25 Years Later," is free and open to the public, and will run from Noon to 2 p.m. in the Michael J. Adanti Student Center, Grand Ballroom. The wall's demolition on Nov. 9, 1989, marked one of the final moments of the Cold War. It had divided East and West Berlin for 28 years, as well as having been a tangible symbol of Soviet oppression of...

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